Hair curler



W. J TANSEY May 1, 1934.

HAIR CURLER Filed Jan. 20, 1934 the same, the section being indicated by Patented May -1, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIQE HAIR CURLER William J. Tansey, San Francisco, Calif. Application January 20, 1934, Serial No. 707,479

5 Claims.

iron jaws into the curler proper so that after the curl has been made, the iron may be readily withdrawn without in any manner affecting the formed curl.

The principal object of the present invention is to produce a non-clogging and ventilated curler that is very simple in construction, one that is provided with improved means for releasing the iron without affecting the curls formed about the curlers.

Another object of the invention is to produce a curler having simplified and positive means for gripping the strands of hair, to start the formation of the curls.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a curler that embodies means for causing its thorough and complete ventilation, so that when the curls are formed thereon, they may be rapidly dried by the application thereto of the usual driers, without in any way affecting the hair or causing the discoloration thereof.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent with reference to the subjoined specification and the accompanying sheet of drawing in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved curling device showing the curler and the rolling iron in separated relation;

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the curler with the rolling iron in position thereon, and illustrating one jaw thereof recessed into the curler to provide a flush contour, so that the rolling iron may be readily released from the curler without disarranging the curl thereon;

Figure 3 is a plan view of the curler per se;

Figure 4 is a-considerably enlarged longitudinal sectional view of the curler clearly illustrating the depressed wall section for the rolling iron jaw, and .the slotted end section for gripping the strands of hair in rolling the curl;

Figure 5 is an enlarged transverse section 0 the curler showing the rolling iron jaws gripping the line 5-5 in Figure 2; and

Figure 6 is an enlarged transverse section of the curler and omitting the rolling iron, as indicated by the line 66 in Figure 3.

In the construction illustrated in the present application, the rolling iron 10 is provided with a long slender jaw 11 and a shorter jaw 12 adapted to be slipped onto the endof the cylindrical curling element 13, with its upper jaw 11 resting in the recessed section 14 of the curler, which recess is formed by slotting the section 15 thereof and depressing this slotted section in forming the curler; the lower jaw 12 of said rolling iron gripping theunder section of said slotted section 15, as clearly shown in Figures 2 and 5.

In this manner the curler may be positively gripped by the iron, and its upper jaw 11 recesses into the curler and provides a substantially continuous contour so that when the curl is formed, the iron may be easily withdrawn therefrom without disarranging the formed curl.

One end of the curler 13 is provided with an elongated open slot 16 in which the ends of the hair strands are placed in starting the formation of the curl, and after the curl has beenrolled upon the curler 13 it is held securely in place by -the hair, after it is wound ab'out the curler.

The operation of forming a curl is simply that of inserting the rolling iron upon the curler thus gripping the same, next placing the strands of hair in the slot 16 and rolling the curler until the curl is properly formed, then clamping the rolled curl in place by means of the yoke 17, and finally withdrawing the rolling iron 10 from the curler 13, as hereinbefore stated. I

I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States the following:

1. In a device of the class described in combination with a cylindrical curling element, a resilient yoke pivoted thereon and slidable relative thereto, locking means carried by one end of said curler and adapted to receive one end of said yoke, said curler having a recessed section, and a rolling iron insertable onto said curling element, and having one of its jaws adapted to seat in said recessed section to securelygrip the same.

2. In a curling device, the combination of a cylindrical curling element having means for gripping the curled strands of hair, said curling element having a recessed wall section, and a rolling iron insertable into said curler and hav-.

ing jaws one of which enters said recess to provide a substantially flush outer contour, whereby a curl may be rolled about the curler and ove said jaw.

3. In a hair curling device embodying a cylindrical curling element having means for gripping the curled hair; said'curling element having a portion of its contour recessed, and means adapted to enter said recess to grip the curler while the curl is being rolled thereby, said means comprising a rolling iron having gripping jaws, one of which is adapted to enter and lie flush in said recess under the rolled curl.

4. A hair curling element embodying a cylinto enter the recess to grip the same while the curl is being rolled, said last means comprising a rolling iron having gripping jaws, one of which is adapted to enter said recess to form a flush surface with the outercontour of the curler, and adapted to be withdrawn from said curler under the formed curl without disarranging the same.

WIILIruvr J. TANSEY. 

